EGAVE

trough

About 2.70 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
    One of Harriet's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
  2. noun Any similarly shaped container. A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
    Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
  3. noun A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
    Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
  4. noun A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
    There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
  5. noun An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
  6. noun A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
    The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
  7. noun A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
  8. noun A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
    The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.

Similar words

gutter basin manger bowl till public treasury pit ditch trench cavity

Often followed by

of and in is to or with for was

Word family

troughs

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